Pentagon: Ex-Gitmo detainees now fighting U.S.

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Pentagon: Ex-Gitmo detainees now fighting U.S.
By Lara Jakes - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 18:50:09 EST

Terror suspects who have been held but released from Guantanamo Bay are increasingly returning to the fight against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Sixty-one detainees released from the Navy base prison in Cuba are believed to have rejoined the fight, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, citing data from December. That’s up from 37 as of March 2008, Morrell said.

The new figures come as President-elect Obama prepares to issue an executive order during his first week in office to close the controversial prison. It’s unlikely, however, that the Guantanamo detention facility will be closed anytime soon as Obama weighs what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida, Taliban or other foreign fighter suspects still there.

About 520 Guantanamo detainees have been released from custody or transferred to prisons elsewhere in the world.

Morrell said more than 100 detainees have been transferred or otherwise released over the last year alone.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/01/ap_detainees_fight_us_011309w/%2e

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1. I suppose a few years in Guantanamo without charges could be a pretty radicalizing experience.

"Returning" to the fight may not be the right word.